Double Reality

The Point, Jessi Jezewska Stevens | Jens Beckert

In an essay for the philosophy magazine The Point, author Jessi Jezewska Stevens reflects on recent developments in literature based on three new novels. Her observations revolve around the question of the relationship between reality and fiction in literature and in the world of economics, and she refers several times to Jens Beckert, director at the MPIfG. The starting point is Beckert's reflections on the social role of the market as a driver of capitalism and in the design of imagined futures.
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